A brand new, authentic documentary from Waves explores how fashionable music bought competitively louder as producers started to push quantity to its limits with the introduction of digital instruments.
The documentary, titled How Music Bought Loud: The Untold Story of the Loudness Wars, is out now to look at at no cost on YouTube. This brief and distinctive doc runs for 12 minutes and options interviews with the engineers who skilled Loudness Wars for themselves.
The movie not solely explains how this pattern started but in addition examines how the pendulum swung again, and the pursuit of musicality returned to the fore. It explores the trade’s makes an attempt at balancing its obsession with loudness whereas encouraging dynamic vary.
“For 3 a long time, the pursuit of loudness has redefined viewers expectations. This brief movie exposes why Led Zeppelin now sounds comparatively quiet in comparison with right this moment’s chart-toppers like Sabrina Carpenter,” says Waves in a press launch shared with MusicTech.
“It reveals how, beginning within the early Nineties, digital instruments gave producers unprecedented energy and temptation to push quantity to its limits. What started as innovation quickly grew to become an obsession, reworking the best way information sound and the way we hear.”
Although brief, the doc options integral interviews with engineers Howie Weinberg (Nirvana, Pink Scorching Chili Peppers), Dale Becker (Billie Eilish, SZA), Gavin Lurssen & Reuben Cohen (of the mastering home chargeable for releases by Metallica, Queens of the Stone Age, Foo Fighters and Robert Plant), in addition to Jesse Ray Ernster (engineer for Doja Cat, Burna Boy, and many others.).
Additionally featured are mastering legend Bob Katz, writer of Mastering Audio: The Artwork and the Science, and Meir Shashoua, Co-founder and CTO of Waves.
You’ll be able to watch the trailer and take a look at the complete documentary within the movies beneath:
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Rachel is a DIY musician who started studying guitar and keyboard from her bed room at 14. She has written information and options for MusicTech since 2022, and in addition has bylines throughout Kerrang!, Guitar.com, and The Forty-5. Although a lover of heavy music, her responsible pleasure is 2000s pop.
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